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Aerial Navigation: the practicability of traveling pleasantly and safely from New-York to California in three days

by: Porter, Rufus

Publication date: 1849

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Hot Air Balloon, Aerial Travel, Porter, Rufus, Rufus Porter

Collection: opensource

Language: English

Born in West Boxford in 1792, Rufus Porter was a prolific inventor. Though the steam-powered airship he proposed here never made it off of the ground, it was a hallmark of Industrial era inventiveness.